Leave it to the South Africans to write one of the best articles I've seen detailing some examples of lean healthcare success in the United States…

We've told you before about the Rube Goldberg contraptions Boeing is building to handle their supply chain convolutions.  Monster planes created j…

Lean-oriented folks like us are ingrained with a mentality to look at all activities in terms of whether they add value to the customer.  As a result…

A few weeks ago several of us participated in a study by Gene Fliedner and Kieran Mathieson of Oakland University. The researchers were attempting to…

Each month new articles, book reviews, and other content are added to the Superfactory website .  The new content is featured in the free monthly e…

The furor surrounding executive pay usually centers on either the (gross) disconnect between performance and pay or the somewhat vaguer feeling that i…

Last month's Knowledge@Wharton had an article titled When Local Risks Become Global Risks, which discusses how globalization has augmented the imp…

Over the past couple weeks our friend Karen Wilhelm at the Lean Reflections blog has been telling us the story of "lean six sigma government"…